Alright seventh album, seven guys, seven songs, seven minutes each, written in the key of uh, seventh notes… […]
death doom metal
As death and doom metal permutations have evolved back into modern depressive extreme metal fashion so comes a […]
On their fifth album Finnish death metal band Decaying have circled back around to refine their original vision […]
Atavisma are a French death doom metal band with a crusty, belched sound reminiscent of Disma and Funebrarum. […]
From the first few bars of “The Doom That Came” one can worm out a unique set of […]
The heaving, psychedelic, riff driven sludge of Coffin Torture’s debut full-length ‘Dismal Planet’ is as flattening and aggressive […]
For all of the insane and experimental extreme metal coming out of Finland in the early 90’s few […]
Chilean cavern-sourced death doom metal band Uttertomb’s 2016 EP ‘Sempiternal’ marked a triumphant point in their spelunking career […]
Underground death metal ‘ex-members of’ nepotism is what initially drew me to the death/doom crunch of Druid Lord. The […]
Death metal is as worn out and mutilated as any other sub-genre of metal but that isn’t to […]
The latest Ataraxy album begins as it ends within confidently strummed soul-searching chords, book-ended by extended tracks that […]
This Danish band have found an impressive middle-ground between the expressive atmospheric riffing of modern shape-shifting black metal […]
This Washington D.C. area death metal band enter their fourth year of grinding away at the death/doom trade […]
Ten years ago I was far more hesitant to give bands from labels like Razorback Records a chance […]
I’ve been a fan of these guys from the earliest days of Runemagick‘s melodic black/death metal to their […]
The ghost lights, funereal phantoms seen from afar, the flickering will-o’-the-wisps haunting distant graveyards at night. Those lost […]
The first two Acid Witch albums are some of my favorite less-than-serious death metal that doesn’t come across […]
Finnish atmospheric death metal band Desolate Shrine have evolved in strides since the claustrophobic bluntness of their debut […]
The initial appeal of Usnea as a sludge/death metal band was their ability to weave in elements of […]
Doom/death metal and funeral doom are genres created to inspire specific emotional reactions, a sort of catharsis of […]
